Erasmus Darwin, M.D., F.R.S. : a biographical and iconographical note / J.W.T. Moody -- Nature, poetry and medicine in late eighteenth century England : a unified perspective of Erasmus Darwin / M.

Exuberant, bantering, unconventional Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) strides across these pages like a force of nature. This engaging, totally unstuffy biography of the prolific inventor, physician, poet ...

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The 18th Century was the age of enquiry but many people in Britain believed the world was formed in 4004BC.This microscope was used by Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) in his botanical studies. Darwin ...

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

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William Bynum applauds a life of physician and scientific poet Erasmus Darwin, Charles's intriguing grandfather. Peter Medawar shared a Nobel prize in 1960 for his work on acquired immunological ...

I must leap to the defence of Charles Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus. It is not the case that, as David J. Hosken says in his Correspondence, “no one else envisaged anything like sexual selection” ...

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